The Latest Breaking News from New Jersey

Officials say the most recent whale found dead on a New Jersey shoreline had apparently been struck by a vessel

Authorities say a New Jersey house where smoke had been reported exploded with volunteer firefighters inside, injuring five and sending two to a hospital for treatment of burns

Authors Ottessa Moshfegh and Susan Choi and actors John Turturro and Mary-Louise Parker will be among dozens of featured guests at a Philip Roth tribute taking place mid-March in the late novelist’s hometown of Newark, New Jersey

A new documentary tells the story of Caleb McGillvary, who became America’s best friend after appearing in a viral video and was later accused of killing a New Jersey lawyer. Clémence Michallon reports

Environmental groups and opponents of offshore wind energy want a federal investigation into the deaths of six whales that have washed ashore in New Jersey and New York in little over a month

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — A young humpback whale that washed up on an Atlantic City beach on Saturday had evidence of a head injury, a large hematoma located just behind the blow hole, an official from the Marine Mammal Stranding Center said Monday.

From waiting for SCOTUS’ decision to chronicling its aftermath, this ‘‘recording star’’ has seen it all.

Nicole Kerr-Lidell, from Rutherglen, were originally told their month-old son had a benign growth, however, three weeks later doctors told the family Jura had a very rare type of soft tissue tumour.

PHILADELPHIA — Kate McClure, one of the three perpetrators involved in the notorious GoFundMe scam that raised $400,000 based on a bogus story about helping a homeless veteran, was sentenced Friday to three years in New Jersey State Prison, Burlington County Prosecutor LaChia L. Bradshaw said.